adduser version 3.113+nmu3ubuntu4 Adds a user or group to the system. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Guy Maor <maor@debian.org> Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.micro.umn.edu> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, for more details.

adduser [--home DIR] [--shell SHELL] [--no-create-home] [--uid ID] [--firstuid ID] [--lastuid ID] [--gecos GECOS] [--ingroup GROUP | --gid ID] [--disabled-password] [--disabled-login] [--encrypt-home] USER Add a normal user adduser --system [--home DIR] [--shell SHELL] [--no-create-home] [--uid ID] [--gecos GECOS] [--group | --ingroup GROUP | --gid ID] [--disabled-password] [--disabled-login] USER Add a system user adduser --group [--gid ID] GROUP addgroup [--gid ID] GROUP Add a user group addgroup --system [--gid ID] GROUP Add a system group adduser USER GROUP Add an existing user to an existing group general options: --quiet | -q don't give process information to stdout --force-badname allow usernames which do not match the NAME_REGEX[_SYSTEM] configuration variable --extrausers uses extra users as the database --help | -h usage message --version | -v version number and copyright --conf | -c FILE use FILE as configuration file